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January 31 Zodiac, Events, Birthdays and Holidays

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 31. From 1900 until now. January 31 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Justin Timberlake (1981), Portia de Rossi (1973) and Omraam Mikhaël Aivanhov (1900). Several movies were released around January 31 over the years, such as Suspicion in 2022 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Baba in 2022 directed by Suresh Krishna.
But much more happened on January 31 over the years: find out below

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2019 Mariah Carey, an American singer, performs in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah, despite Saudi women rights activists urging her to cancel it.
2018 Afghanistan War (2001-present). A BBC study found that the Taliban currently controls or has some territory in 70% of Afghanistan. They control 14 districts, which total 4% of Afghanistan's total, and have an open militant presence in 263 other districts, representing 66% of Afghanistan's remaining occupied territory.
2017 Syrian Civil War: The Syrian opposition agrees that they will surrender the remaining villages between the Wadi barada area and Lebanon-Syria borders, as well the Rankous borderange to transport at least 250 rebel fighters from their stronghold in Idlib Governorate.
2016 Boko Haram insurgency 2016 Dalori attack: More than 100 people were killed and many more injured in an attack on Dalori Village, 4 km from Maiduguri in Nigeria by Boko Haram militants.
2015 2014-15 Russian military intervention into Ukraine: Separatists backed by Russia and Ukraine hold peace talks, as fighting rages across eastern Ukraine.
2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict : In response to continuing rocket fire from the Palestinian territories, the Israeli Air Force strikes targets within the Gaza Strip.
2013 2013 Pretoria train crash: Two passenger trains full of schoolchildren and commuters collide in Pretoria, South Africa. The collision left up to 300 people injured.
2012 According to the People's Republic of China, 29 Chinese citizens who were abducted while working in a Sudan construction project are still missing.
2011 Protests in Egypt 2011:
2010 At least 13 people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a Ciudad Juarez student party.
2009 After an oil spillage ignited in Molo in Kenya, over 200 people were injured and at least 113 died. This happened just days after the massive fire that erupted at Nakumatt's Nairobi supermarket, claiming at least 25 lives.
2008 Microsoft offers to purchase Yahoo! for US$44.6 Billion: US$31 per share, stock and cash.
2007 Officially, Delta Air Lines creditors reject US Airways' hostile takeover offer.
2006 Samuel Alito is inducted as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
2005 Arab-Israeli conflict: A 10-year-old Palestinian girl is killed after she was shot in the head while playing in her Rafah school playground. It is not clear where the gunfire came from. Hamas launches mortar bombs in retaliation and damages a house in an Israeli settlement.
2004 According to Pentagon budget proposals accidentally posted online, the US defense budget will exceed US$400 billion next fiscal year. This is almost 7% more than it was last year.
2003 Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia: The Waterfall rail accident occurred near Waterfall.
2002 Large sections of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begin to disintegrate, taking about 35 days.
2001 A Scottish court in the Netherlands convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.
2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes: An MD-83 with horizontal stabilizer problems crashes in the Pacific Ocean off Point Mugu, California killing all 88 passengers.
1999 The Denver Broncos win their second consecutive Super Bowl, defeating the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19, in Super Bowl XXXIII.
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1997 Final Fantasy VII is released in Japan.
1996 Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
1994 Barcelona opera theater Gran Teatro del Liceo burns down
1993 St Joan opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances
1992 MTA raised tolls on most NYC bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1990 1st ever all-sports daily National begins publishing
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, Washington, USA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil.
1987 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win.
1986 In Ohio, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurs.
1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1981 The Tide Is High by Blondie hits #1
1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41.
1978 Elvis: The Legend Lives! opens at Palace Theater NYC for 101 performances
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308.
1975 John Lennon releases #9 Dream
1973 Pan American and Trans World Airlines cancelled their options to buy 13 Concorde airliners.
1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998).
1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1969 Beatles perform last live gig
1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32 inches), at Agata, USSR.
1967 West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
1966 USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon
1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 US report Smoking and Health connects smoking to lung cancer.
1962 Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury / Redstone 2
1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress / singer Phyllis Newman in New York City
1959 Joe Cronin signs seven-year pact to become head of American League.
1958 Jackpot Bowling premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished.
1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil.
1955 RCA demonstrates first music synthesizer.
1953 Princess Victoria capsized off Stanraer Scotland
1952 Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1950 US President Harry Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1949 1st daytime soap on TV These Are My Children (NBC in Chicago)
1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway.
1947 The Communists take power in Poland.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1945 American Private Edward Donald Slovik, age 25, is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first such execution since the US Civil War.
1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
1943 39 U-boats sunk this month
1942 62 U-boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
1941 21 U-boats sunk this month
1940 40 U-boats sunk this month
1936 Green Hornet radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1935 30.5 cm (12.0 inches) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record).
1934 FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1933 French government of Edouard Daladier takes power.
1932 US railway unions accept 10 percent wage reduction.
1930 First US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1929 Erich Maria Remarques publishes Im West nieces Neues in Berlin
1928 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company.
1927 International allies' military command in Germany disbands.
1926 British and Belgian troops leave Cologne.
1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania.
1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1917 Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship.
1916 Dutch Girl Guides form.
1915 WWI: Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs when 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army on the Rawka River west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.
1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
1905 Carroll Wright appointed first US Commissioner of Labor.
1901 Boer General John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
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